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The semantics of contrastive topics in Hungarian

alcím: Doktori disszertáció

egységesített cím: Semantics of contrastive topics in Hungarian

Gyuris Beáta

beszerezve: 2006-09-12

Szemantika, stilisztika, retorika

szövegnyelvészet

szövegtan

magyar nyelv

tartalomjegyzék: Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a contrastive topic?
Introduction
Theoretical background on topics

The first theory on information structuring: Brassai
Traditional concepts of information structuring
Recent theories of topics


The notion of topic in contemporary Hungarian linguistics
Some general properties of contrastive topics in Hungarian

Identifying contrastive topics
Non-topic expressions pronounced with a contrastive topic intonation
Some tests for contrastive topichood


Contrastive topics in Hungarian - Topics or foci?

Contrastive topic - a subtype of topic?
Contrastive topic - a subtype of focus?


The concept of the associate of the contrastive topic
Summary
Chapter 2: Presupposition, implicature, and discourse structure
Introduction
Alternative propositions: Implicature or entailment?
Previous theoretical approaches to implicature and discourse congruence

Von Fintel's (1994) theory about the discourse conditions licensing contrastive topics
Büring (1997, 1999) on the presuppositions and implicatures of contrastive topics
Contrastive topic alternatives and compositionality
Kadmon's (2001) theory on discourse congruence


Discourse congruence with Hungarian contrastive topics

Some relevant data
Steps towards a theoretical explanation


Summary
Chapter 3: The scope of contrastive topics
Introduction
Previous accounts of the possibilities of scope reversal between quantificational expressions and negation

Ladd 1980
Horn 1989
De Swart 1998


Previous proposals for capturing the narrow scope readings of contrastive topics in Hungarian

Alberti & Medve 2000
É. Kiss 2000


Property-denoting contrastive topics vs. sentence interpretation

Properties as noun phrase denotations
The property-reading of contrastive topics
The lexical representation of verbs with contrastive topic arguments


Deriving the narrow scope readings of contrastive topics compositionally
Weak points of the 'contrastive topic as property' approach
Summary
Chapter 4: Contrastive topics in factual statements
Informal characterization of the data
Distributive versus collective interpretations

Some data
Collective and distributive readings: the essence of the distinction
Previous approaches to the collective/distributive distinction


A unified approach to scope and collectivity/distributivity: Landman (1996)

Overview
Comments on Landman (1996)
Interpretation of Hungarian sentences in terms of Landman's (1996) event semantics

Sentences without contrastive topics
Sentences with contrastive topics




Krifka's (1989) event semantics and its applicability to Hungarian

General overview


An event semantics of Hungarian sentences with contrastive topics

Logical structure of sentences with contrastive topics
The interpretation procedure associated with sentences containing a contrastive topic
Contrastive topics denoting the logical subject of predication
Contrastive topics contributing to the expression of a property


Predicting well-formedness in an event-based framework

Sentences describing maximal events
Sentences describing atomic events
Contrastive topics with at least n
Collective versus distributive interpretations


Contrastive topics and tripartite structures - adverbial quantifiers as contrastive topics

Adverbs of quantification in non-contrastive readings

Data
Rooth's (1985) theory on the meaning of adverbs of quantification
A formal account of the meaning of Hungarian adverbs of quantification


On the interpretation of adverbs of quantification in the role of contrastive topic

Developing the formal apparatus 1 - simple sentences
Developing the formal apparatus 2 - complex sentences with focused when clauses and 'strong' adverbs of quantification
Weak adverbs of quantification as contrastive topics




Summary
Chapter 5: Contrastive topics in modal and intensional statements
Data
The semantics of modals
Integrating the semantics of modals with that of the contrastive topic

Truth-conditional meaning and alternative propositions
Calculating the implicature
Distributive versus group readings of contrastive topic DPs


Formal representation of the truth-conditional meaning of modal assertions
Some exceptions
Summary
References

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